Also, why had Larry not been more worried about the video? He'd made several stabs at finding out if it really existed, but he hadn't pressed the inquiry as energetically as Dave thought he should have. If he'd been lying, if he was just a killer fleeing the area, would he want to risk leaving behind a video which linked him to the death of Tom Martin? Larry had seemed confident that Dave wouldn't use the video even if he had it; in addition, he'd said that it was too late for such a video to do Dave any good. That didn't seem like a sensible assumption; without some supernatural force to whisk him from the face of the earth, he could still be apprehended, and a video of his visit to Martin's house could still sear him in court. It was definitely not too late for a video to run Larry

